Reply #40: From a big picture perspective, both were very insignificant bills. [View All]

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But if you want to kid yourself into think that history teachers will be talking about No Child Left Behind as if it were 3/5ths compromise, you go ahead.

Expensive and shitty does not mean impactful. Thats the way I view those bills. There isn't a damn thing you can do about that view. As I said, you will live over it.

No one said its the ONLY way Washington works. But it is however the way Washington often must work. Your views on whether Republicans had it as hard are completely irrelevant and they offer no merits to the discussion as to whether a certain amount of deal making is necessary to get things done.